Escape from Detroit

Background: The Detroit News Reader Debate question for the April 25th edition asks about high speed rail: Should the federal government fund high-speed trains from Chicago to Detroit and other Midwestern cities?


Politicians need to stop wasting time and money on expensive, high profile, low value projects such as high speed rail. Passenger rail service is a declining industry and taxpayers have lost billions of dollars poured into Amtrak. The only benefit with a Detroit-based high speed rail system is that the unemployed whose homes have been foreclosed and cars repossessed can escape the state quicker.

[Letter to the Editor - The Detroit News. Submitted 04/18/2009.]